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Finally, after more than a year of development I am proud to present this Nanobeast to fellow newgroundians.

The game is a challenging retro shooter with an interesting upgrade system that involves collecting power-ups. However, when you collect a power-up (P) that does not mean you have upgraded immediately. You get to choose how to use those power-ups to upgrade your general stats:
- speed of your ship (you need 1 power-up)
- power of your weapon (you need 2 power-ups)
- fire rate of your weapon (you need 3 power-ups)
- bombs (you need 4 power-ups)
- lives (you need 5 power-ups)

There are 2 additional weapons to be collected as you play: missiles and side gun.

There are 27 medals to be achieved, go get them!!!

CONTROLS:

Use the arrow keys to move
Press 'A' to shoot left
Press 'D' to shoot right
Press 'S' to activate your current power-up level
Press 'W' to release a bomb

The game is generally very challenging. There are three difficulty settings: normal, hard and insane. There is no easy.

The highscore system multiplies your score depending on which difficulty setting you play and how many medals you have collected.

The game features original 8-bit music written especially for 'Nanobeast' by Christian Erenskjold a.k.a Coffee-Break, a very talented NG musician. Other musicians who also contributed are listed in the credits.

I have been developing and beta testing this game heavily for a long time. Any feedback and ideas will be greatly appreciated.

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Daily 1st, Weekly 2nd in games, Weekly 8th overall and more than 350K plays? Thank you Newgrounds! You guys are absolutely outstanding!!! Every single one of you.

Hope you enjoy and see you soon with another game!

- Hristo Atanasov (RatherRandom)

Reviews

Rated 3.5 / 5 stars2011-08-23 17:19:27

if everything would be as awesome as the sound..

..the most entertaining part is the music and the voice acting in the sequences between the chapters. besides that it get's kind of repetetive and blurry cause you only see white spots everywhere once your ship's power and firerate is at a high level. fix that, put some more work in the skill system and this could be a even better time killer! :)

Rated 4 / 5 stars2011-08-23 07:29:37

Ok, so the first thing i noticed about the game was the name of the creator(%u0417%u0434%u0440%u0430%u043 2%u0435%u0439), not enough Bulgarians around this place.

Now for the actual review.

Gameplay:
The first level is deceptivly easy. Also while firing i couldn't go diagonally backwards and up, that bug was fixed in the later levels. Secondly the power up system reminded me of a simular top-down shooter(an old one) called Star Monkey, there if you upgraded the damage your ship slowed down. It made for some interesting strategy. That game was also much harder than this one.(At least untill the point i saw the game)

The second level is when the game picked up for me, but i feel that the levels were needlessly long. Nothing interesting happened, stuff lik emore mini boss fights would have made for a better experience. Also more steering sections, can be good. Another game of the same type made good use of those (Jets and Guns).

Graphics.
Very nice pre mission charecters , but i HATE the shit design on both the Nanobeast and enemies. Its very dull. The backgrouds are very stale and could use some improving. The bosses should look menacing
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Sounds:
Loved the music and the regular sounds did what they were supposed to. I loathed the voice of the scientist.